Prayer journaling has helped me to be so much more mindful and present in my prayer life. I love being able to review my writing and see how my prayers have been faithfully answered. God has answered so many of my prayers that I’ve completely forgotten. Keeping a prayer journal can be a tremendous help to you on your walk with God.

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Wondering what to wear on your vacation to Alaska? I have plenty of tips to keep you from advertising to the world that you are, in fact, a tourist. Blend in with the locals and keep your own personal style-all while being ready to deal with the elements. Spoiler alert: umbrellas should not be on your packing list.

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Who knew that a really bad case of athlete’s foot would be the catalyst for finding out the best news of our lives? This is the story of the day I got the phone call I’d been waiting on for ELEVEN YEARS. God is so good-His ways are higher than our ways and His timing is perfect. If you are struggling with infertility I pray our story will bring you a measure of hope.

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WHAT caused such a drastic weight gain? HOW did I finally get pregnant without costly infertility treatments? WHAT finally worked to start taking that weight off? How can you beat PCOS? I want to tell you a story about this girl. All three pictures-same girl. Over a span of 20 years. Really, in that last […] Read more…

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We have a lot of chuckles in Alaska about tourists being so easy to pick out of a crowd. Any trained Alaskan eye can spot an out-of-towner at fifty paces. Usually, visitors are way overdressed for the weather. Or overdressed in general (we’re a fairly casual place, y’all). Dear reader, I’d like to help you […] Read more…

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Babies and children flying in first class seating can be a controversial topic. There are strong feelings on both sides of this argument, and many valid points to make. As long as airlines allow children in first class, it seems to me to be a moot point. I’m not really saying that when flying […] Read more…

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My 35th birthday was bleak. We were reeling from a string of THREE disastrously failed foster adoptions-a sibling group we dearly love and miss to this very day. We had loved and cared for those children as though they were our very own sons and daughter-and we wanted so badly to become a forever […] Read more…

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Have you ever seen that movie, The Help? It’s a powerful film, but there was one part that stood out the most to me. The heroine Aibilene spoke about how effective her prayers were because she wrote them down. She went on to say that people always wanted to be on her prayer list because […] Read more…